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Editor’s Be aware: Present Perfect

Welcome to 2015 and to the 35th year of Tech&Learning! Whereas the homeowners, titles, and editors of this chronicle have modified many instances over the a long time, the mission has not-to share concepts and instruments for edtech leaders.

Subsequent month we start the celebration with a monthly sequence on the historical past of education and expertise since 1980, written by those that lived it. This month we grapple with more recent events. Journalist, blogger, and self-anointed edtech Cassandr, Audrey Watters, agreed to allow us to publish parts of her annual magnum opus (High Edtech Traits), which I imagine to be essentially the most provocative, sometimes infuriating, unabashedly opinionated analysis of 2014. Get a style right here, then go to her blog, hackeducation.com, for the complete impact. The opposite major feature, written by educator and entrepreneur Invoice Fitzgerald, breaks down probably the most overwrought and misunderstood points in schools at present (What It Means When we Speak about Pupil Information). Simply reading these pieces made me really feel smarter. I believe you'll feel the same.

Two more Tech&Learning developments to share: First, our T&L Tech Boards, which have to be the longest working face-to-face traveling highway show of training know-how insight, have been renamed Tech&Studying Reside. Don’t fear, you can anticipate the identical nice day of learning. What will likely be completely different is how we deliver the content material outdoors the bodily partitions, utilizing a brand new “social hub” platform that takes Tweeting to a whole new degree. Try our first “go” with it at dwell.techlearning.com, where we shall be masking BETT15 in London, the world’s largest education expertise exhibition. Here’s to an important yr!

- Kevin Hogan
Content material Director
khogan@nbmedia.com